Mystifying Mathematical Puzzles


4 Stars

An excellent book for mathematicians, problem solvers, logical thinkers and maths teachers.

The book is full of maths problems with methods to solve them. Of particular interest is the geometric shapes, that have instructions on how to solve problems and create the various shapes and patterns.

The strength of the book lies in the illustrated diagrams and the instructions which are generally easy to follow.

I can see maths teachers seeing challenges from the book to frustrate their students.
Aa great learning tool.

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An excellent collection of the vintage publication from 1960-1964. This is a most in the library of any puzzle lover library and intrepid mathematicians.

I found myself with two puzzle books to review this month, and found it interesting to contrast them. The first is Mystifying Mathematical Puzzles by Joseph S. Madachy, and the second is Bletchley Park IQ Puzzles by the Bletchley Park Trust. Mathematical Puzzles treats a wide variety of interesting numerical pattern investigations, topology, geometry, as well as word arithmetic, logic puzzles, and quite a bit of miscellaneous. There is really something here for every interested student of mathematics (I’m much more fond of algebra than geometry for example…) Bletchley Park IQ Puzzles doesn’t limit itself to mathematics, but many of the pattern investigations are mathematical in nature. These are a great set of complimentary books for the thinker who is looking for hours of puzzling entertainment.

Mystifying Mathematical Puzzles by Joseph S. MadachyThis book was pretty disappointing. From the description, I thought it would be a book of puzzles for the reader to solve. Unfortunately, 3/4 of the book was descriptions on how famous puzzles have been solved. For someone who is more interested in the explantions, this would be a good book. If, like me, you are more interested in being the solver, I would skip it. Also good to know, this book was published first in 1966 so some of the puzzles are a little dated.



Two stars

This book comes out May 16